Bandwidth Monitoring program

pete wright nomadlogic at gmail.com
Tue Dec 5 09:45:21 PST 2006


On 12/5/06, Benjamin Adams <freebsdworld at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm on a network that has a normal store firewall, setup as a NAT.  I'm
> trying to find a way to monitor all bandwidth by clients through that
> firewall.  I don't have the ability to just put an inline box to examine
> packets.  Is there a program where I can see whats going on from the
> computer on that network.
>
> What I'm looking for is:
> client ip : 2.3 GB
> List of ports used in bandwidth amounts.
>


hard to tell with out knowing what you are running as a gateway/router
but I would look into using some sort of SNMP script to gather that
info and plot it out.  A lot of people use MRTG, i've recently
starting using Cacti (www.cacti.net) to help implement this.

HTH
-pete


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